Thanks comp@ddict, Jakob, Sudhanshu123 and ALPHA17,
confusion confusion confusion..
i3 has good performance but 2 cores..
amd has 4 cores but power consumption is high..
with lga 1155, H67, I can upgrade to ivy Bridge.
Also, I do want sata 3 and usb 3.0.
Somehow Intel does seem to be the...